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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






2. Point in time that work was scheduled to start on a schedule activity. called planned start date.






3. The document that describes the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; wan who is responsible for providing each type of communic






4. The value of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. ALSO BCWP.






5. The right to apply project resources - expend funds - make decisions or give approvals






6. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






7. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed






8. Documenting the actions necessary to define - prepare - integrate and coordinate all subsidiary plans






9. Method of resolving the total variance in the set of scope - cost - and schedule variables into specific component variances that are associated with defined factors affecting scope - cost and schedule variables






10. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






11. Describes each component in the work breakdown structure (WBS). for each WBS component - the WBS dictionary includes a brief definition of the scope of statement of work - defined deliverables - a list of associated activities and list of milestones.






12. Narrative description of products - services or results






13. Communicating and working with stakeholders to meet their needs and address issues as they occur






14. Evaluation of whether or not a product - service - or system complies with a regulation - requirement - specification or imposed condition.






15. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






16. Performing the work defined in the project management plan to achieve the project's objectives






17. The process of finalizing all activities across all of the project management process groups to formally complete the project or phase






18. The time in calendar units between the start and finish of a schedule activity






19. Document that graphically depicts the project team members and their interrelationships for a specific project






20. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






21. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






22. Area of project management defined by its knowledge requirements and described in terms of its component processes - practices - inputs - outputs - tools and techniques






23. Planned dates for performing schedule activities and planned dates for meeting schedule milestones






24. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables






25. Management methodology for integrating scope - schedule and resources and for objectively measuring project performance and progress. performance is measured by determining the budgeted cost of work performed (earned value) and comparing it to the ac






26. Skilled human resources - equipment - services - supplies - commodities - material - budgets or funds






27. One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines






28. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts






29. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






30. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






31. Point in time that work was scheduled to finish on a schedule activity. called planned finish date






32. Auditing the quality requirements and the results from quality control measurements to ensure appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are used






33. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project






34. The area on either side of the centerline - or mean - of data plotted on a control chart that meets the customer's requirements for a product or service.






35. Change to project scope. almost always requires an adjustment to the project cost or schedule






36. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






37. Type of procurement document used to request price quotations from prospective sellers of common or standard products or services






38. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






39. Narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints and a description of work that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a co






40. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






41. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






42. A histogram - ordered by frequency of occurrence - that shows how many results were generated by each identified cause






43. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes






44. Depiction in a diagram format of the inputs - process actions - and outputs of one or more processes within a system






45. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.






46. Centralized coordinated management of a program to achieve the program's strategic objectives and benefits






47. A planning technique that subdivides the project scope and project deliverables into smaller - more manageable components - until the project work associated with accomplishing the project scope and providing the deliverables is defined in sufficient






48. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






49. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






50. Authorized budget assigned to the scheduled work to be accomplished for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component